The Potemkin pothole

An otherwise trivial event can make a major impression on the public if it encapsulates an important truth. I hope that turns out to be the case with Schwartenegger’s Synthetic Pothole. Digging a hole in a road in order to fill it in for the TV cameras is as perfect a metaphor for the idea-poor, bullsh*t-rich Gropenfuerer regime as the Democrats could ask for.

What used to be said of Hollywood is true of the Gubernator: once you peel away the fake tinsel on the surface, you expose the real tinsel at the core.

Hat tip to Cory Doctorow, who came up with the “Potemkin pothole” label. Too bad not more than 2% of the California electorate would get the reference.

Update: Two readers defend the appropriateness of the Potemkin-village analogy. Just as Prince Potemkin (allegedly) tried to deceive the sovereign Emperess about the province he governed as her appointee, so Aaaahnul (definitely) tried to deceive the sovereign voters about the state he governs as their appointee. Sounds right to me.